Augustus Seymour Porter

Augustus Seymour Porter (18 January 1798-18 September 1872) was a US Senator from Michigan (W) from 20 January 1840 to 4 March 1845, succeeding Lucius Lyon and preceding Lewis Cass.

Biography
Augustus Seymour Porter was born in Canandaigua, New York in 1798, the nephew of Secretary of War Peter Buell Porter. He became a lawyer in Detroit, Michigan in 1818, and he served as Detroit recorder in 1830 and as Mayor from 1838 to 1839. In 1840, he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate, serving as a Whig until 1845. He died in Niagara Falls, New York in 1872.